On Thu, Dec 20, 2012 at 11:23 PM, Sean Farley <sean at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 20, 2012 at 10:15 PM, Barry Smith <bsmith at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:
>>
>> Seeeeaaaannnnnn!
>>
>> Yes Jed I know Apple computers suck.
>>
>> But how do I fix this? Note that simply changing SCALAPACK.py to
>> scalapack.py doesn't resolve the problem. Note also that SCALAPACK is of the
>> FORTRAN, LINPACK, EISPACK ilk where the name is officially and correctly ALL
>> IN CAPS so in fact SCALAPACK.py should remain SCALAPACK.py and not move to
>> lower case :-(
>>
>> Google only led me to old posts that I don't trust to resolve the problem.
>
> From the commit message,
>
> https://bitbucket.org/petsc/petsc-dev/commits/6452035a0fe16cff7e7ff959c07b52f2708cf2a0
>
> "Also, the genius that decided to use the case-sensitive spelling of a
> package's filename within buildsystem has ensured that there will
> *always* be future repository problems since most of the developers
> (e.g. Barry) have case-insensitive filesystems. This will be
> problematic for bisection as well."
>
> Basically, the package name has to be lowercase for the file to
> download (notice the link is all lowercase).
I am correct that no solution exists in this message?
Thanks,
Matt
> P.S. - Why all the Apple hate? You can change the filesystem to be
> case-sensitive, if you'd like.
--
What most experimenters take for granted before they begin their
experiments is infinitely more interesting than any results to which
their experiments lead.
-- Norbert Wiener
